Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde is a Hammer Films remake of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic about a doctor that goes and drinks some of his own bilge water in an attempt to do some kind of experiment. Obviously, I have never read the book because, well, it’s a book, but do I have a little experience with some of the themes in this movie. I’ve watched Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde so I think I can safely say that I’m well versed enough in the story to qualify as a “film scholar” on the subject. Read More

When this was released in the U.S. it was retitled The Devil’s Bride, probably because The Devil Rides Out really doesn’t make any sense, but there wasn’t any bride the devil was trying to get either. Oh, there was some wimpy looking girl that the bad guy constantly harassed but I never got the feeling that he was after anything other than just another disciple. In fact, the title is really the only lame part of this film from Hammer starring Christopher Lee. Read More

This Hammer Films effort is infamous because everyone that worked on it died, giving it a nice sense of realism because we all know that everyone that ever robbed the tomb of an ancient Egyptian super villain also died in real life! Remember the curse of King Tut’s tomb? Ten years after Tut’s burial chamber was opened, six of the twenty-six people that were present for that had all died! Read More

This fairly early Hammer film is a pretty unremarkable affair involving the search for the abominable snowman in the Himalayas. Peter Cushing plays a wuss botanist named Dr. John Rollason who’s up in those parts doing prissy things like studying rare plants, sipping tea, and generally sucking up to the lama that runs the monastery that he, his wife (way too young for him) and his assistant (obviously gay) are crashing at during the course of their stay. Read More